NW Productions

Published: 13 October 2013
Reporter: David Upton

Northern Broadsides production of The Grand Gesture, at The Dukes Credit: Nobby Clarke
Tim Crouch in I, Malvolio at Live at LICA
Brigit Forsyth (Iris) and Sian Phillips (Dorothy) in People Credit: Ellie Kurttz

The Grand Gesture is a new adaptation of Nikolai Erdman’s dark comic play The Suicide, and will be at The Dukes in Lancaster from October 15-19.

Northern Broadsides associate director Conrad Nelson and playwright Deborah McAndrew team up again, for a work updated from 1920s Russia to 21st Century Britain.

The Live at LICA theatre season, on Lancaster University campus, starts with British avant-garde theatre pioneers Forced Entertainment and its new show Tomorrow's Parties, a playful look to the future, on October 15-16.

Tim Crouch, an experienced exponent of Shakespeare for young people, also presents his one-man show I, Malvolio at Live at LICA on October 18-19.

Ghosts will again haunt Lancaster Castle next Friday and Saturday when the city’s Demi-Paradise Productions Company present Ghostly Tales.

Not recommended for children under 12 and with limited disabled access.

Thriller - Live, the concert show that celebrates the music of Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5, will be at Blackpool's Grand Theatre this week.

This new tour also features the Cleo Higgins as the lead female vocalist.

Singer/songwriter Will Young reprises his award-winning role in Rufus Norris’s acclaimed production of Cabaret at the Opera House in Blackpool from Tuesday to Saturday.

The National Theatre production of Alan Bennett’s new play People comes to The Lowry in Salford this week.

Following a sell-out run at the National, it stars well-known face of stage and screen Brigit Forsyth and award-winning TV and stage actress Siân Phillips.

Mess is based on writer and performer Caroline Horton’s own experiences of anorexia nervosa.

The resulting funny and poignant play with songs is a three hander and is at Manchester’s Contact Theatre next Wednesday and Thursday.

There's suspects, secrets and suspense when the national tour of Agatha Christie's classic 'whodunnit' Go Back For Murder comes to Manchester Opera House this week.

There’s a feast of performance for children and young people at Manchester Literature Festival from this weekend.

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